{"id":1071,"date":"2011-02-26T12:20:42","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T16:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=1071"},"modified":"2011-08-20T10:15:26","modified_gmt":"2011-08-20T14:15:26","slug":"video-documents-the-history-of-the-voa-bethany-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/video-documents-the-history-of-the-voa-bethany-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Video documents the history of the VOA Bethany site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Update 18 August 2011)<br \/>\nDigging back through our archives, I found this video post from February. If you aren&#8217;t familiar with the history of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voice_of_America_Bethany_Relay_Station\" title=\"What is the VOA Bethany site?\" target=\"_blank\">VOA Bethany site<\/a>, this is a must see.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/icrr6lZBMuQ\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em> Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/kimelli.nfshost.com\/index.php?id=10778&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Kimandrewelliottcom-Home+%28kimandrewelliott.com+-+Home%29\">Kim Elliott<\/a> for bringing to my attention.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Update 18 August 2011) Digging back through our archives, I found this video post from February. If you aren&#8217;t familiar with the history of the VOA Bethany site, this is a must see. Thanks to Kim Elliott for bringing to my attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,56,304],"tags":[366,10,126,182],"class_list":["post-1071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-broadcasters","category-videos","tag-bethany-ohio","tag-voa","tag-voa-bethany","tag-voice-of-america"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-hh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13261,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/photos-from-the-voa-bethany-museum\/","url_meta":{"origin":1071,"position":0},"title":"Photos from the VOA Bethany Museum","author":"Thomas","date":"May 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Immediately after packing up our table at the Dayton Hamvention, my buddies Eric (WD8RIF), Miles (KD8KNC), and I made the 30 minute journey to Bethany, Ohio, to visit the VOA Bethany museum. Main entrance and front lobby (above). Entering the transmitter control room. 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Dominic, the National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting director, will speak on the \u201cHistory of the VOA-Bethany Station\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/VOA-Bethany-1-1-1024x678.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/VOA-Bethany-1-1-1024x678.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/VOA-Bethany-1-1-1024x678.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":27366,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/voa-museum-marks-75th-anniversary-with-gala\/","url_meta":{"origin":1071,"position":2},"title":"VOA museum marks 75th anniversary with gala","author":"Thomas","date":"July 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Journal News via\u00a0Howard Bailen) WEST CHESTER TWP. 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